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Word	Definition
acheronnoun	(Greek mythology) A river in the infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets, it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf.
abyssnoun	(frequently figurative) A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable; any void space.
abaddonnoun	The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; Apollyon;
erebusnoun	(Greek mythology) The dark and gloomy cavern between the earth and Hades; the underworld.
hadesnoun	(Greek mythology) The underworld, the domain of Hades, by transference from its god.
tartarusnoun	(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) A dark and gloomy part of the realm of Hades, reserved for the damned and the wicked, such as the Titans; an equivalent of hell in Greek and Roman mythology.
barathrumnoun	The abyss, hell.
hell-realmnoun	Alternative form of hell realm. [A hellish dimension or state; the realm of existence in the wheel of life associated with maximum suffering, anger, and conflict.]
hellnoun	(in many religions, uncountable) A place of torment where some or all sinners are believed to go after death and evil spirits are believed to be.
afterworldnoun	A supposed world that is entered after death; the realm of the afterlife.
underworldnoun	That part of society that is engaged in crime or vice, and particularly those involved in organized crime.
otherworldnoun	(paganism) The other realms of existence beyond the world of mankind, especially the realms of the dead or the fairy folk.
tophetnoun	(biblical) A location near Jerusalem in the valley of Gehenna where children were burned alive as sacrifice.
malebolgenoun	The eighth circle of Hell in the Divine Comedy.
abadonnoun	Alternative spelling of Abaddon. [The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; Apollyon;]
harrowing of hellnoun	(mythology, theology) A raid into the underworld by a heroic figure.
valhallanoun	(Norse mythology) The home of half of all warriors who died gloriously in battle as well as many of the Æsir.
narakanoun	(Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism and Buddhism) The underworld or Hell according to Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism and Buddhism, where souls are sent for the expiation of their sins.
xibalbanoun	The underworld in Mayan mythology.
pandæmoniumnoun	The high capital of Hell in John Milton's Paradise Lost.